Eddie's Surprising Comeback

May 2013
Just days after our trip up north to our fertility specialist for an "assisted cycle"...........
Our ordeal began on Mother's Day...........

Here's our story.
Eddie's Surprising Comeback

Still unable to walk or communicate on July 19, Eddie Justesen gets love and encouragement from daughter LilyAnna. Eddie spoke his first words in over a month when our baby girl jumped into his arms after not being able to visit him for a week due to her being sick. He said, "My Princess"

Back on his feet on July 31, Justesen gets applause from the Pinnacle staff and tears of joy from his wife, Lara.

2.....and 3.....Is this meant to be?

January 2013

Geared up & ready to start a fresh year & a fresh cycle. Going to start on the injectables & oral meds again with monitoring & HCG trigger to force ovulation so timing will be optimal :D

February 2013
YES! SUCCESS!!! Another positive pregnancy test. Again, confirmed by blood work. Second blood work shows appropriate doubling time. Third bloodwork...things are slowing down. NOT AGAIN! :(  Lost at 5 & 1/5 wks. UGH.

April 2013
Identical to last cycle.  Multiple positive pregnancy tests....each getting darker. Confirmed by blood work.....then gone :,(

This makes 3. Is it meant to be?

We decided to take one month off then we would try with medical help only 2 more times before throwing in the towel.

Sucess........or not :(

March 2012

Finally...after months of failed cycles we got our first positive pregnancy test. Bloodwork confirmed. Although still the HCG was low..... it was still early. Second bloodwork HCG still climbing.......but too slowly. It was the beginning of the end. :(
I just couldn't believe it. I was devasted. So close....yet so far away.
I am now 44 yrs old and our chances of conception are slipping away....FAST!
 We decided to take a few months off and TRY & not think about it.

Less than 1%

August, 2011

When LilyAnna was 4 months old, we started to contemplate trying to get pregnant again. I was 43 yrs old and we were given, by fertility experts, a less than 3% chance of conception with LilyAnna. We knew are chances weren't great.

We went back to our fertility doctor (when LilyAnna was about 6 months old) and after some fertility testing, we were given a less than 1% chance of conception this time :(  Our doctor urged us to rethink our plans. I told him I knew there was one more child waiting for us. He, reluctantly agreed to begin treatment. Telling me, with a guarded smile....., "Well...if you truly believe there is another one for you...who am I to argue with woman's intuition. Lets get your medication ordered today & get started".
   We sat down with the nurse and discussed our plan of attack. We ordered our expensive inejctible fertility meds & oral meds...went home and geared up for the upcoming cycle by testing at home for ovulation & waiting for our meds in the mail.
Cycle after cycle......failure. I knew it would happen....just when...I did not know. It was so hard.
Patience.

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